Hello,
I’m a bit overweight male, mostly healthy, but at my latest doctor appointment it turned out that both my bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels were sky high. My doctor immediately gave me a prescription for Pravachol and alongside taking the medication, I’ve been trying to follow a healthy diet and keep my self as active as I can.
I did have some issues with headaches and tiredness when I started taking pravastatin, but much more worrying problem I noticed just recently is that I’m bruising quite easily. Is easy bruising common side effect of Pravastatin/ Pravachol?
Pravastatin is used with diet, weight-loss, and exercise to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke and to decrease the chance that heart surgery will be needed in people who have heart disease or who are at risk of developing heart disease.
Hello,
you are right to be worried about side effect such as easy bruising or unusual bleeding that won't stop when you're taking Pravastatin - it's one of the very rare but possibly very dangerous side effects of this statin medication that might indicate that your kidneys, liver or blood clotting are not functioning normally, as a result of taking this medication.
That's why my advice would be to call in your doctor's office and ask for an appointment as soon as you can, so that professionals can check your liver and kidney function.